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title: Joel 2:16 (JPS 1917) — Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her pavilion. Who acts: you, bridegroom. Joel 2:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Joel 2:16 · JPS 1917

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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her pavilion.

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**Who acts:** you, bridegroom · **What happens:** gather, sanctify, assemble, suck, let, go · **To what, where:** people, congregation, elders, children, breasts, bridegroom

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This is Joel 2:16 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bridegroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOL:36
# text = Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her pavilion.
1	Gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	suck	suck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | imperative | you *not said here* | the people |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **sanctify** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the congregation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **assemble** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the elders |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elder=Theme |
| 4 | **gather** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **suck** | present |  | the breasts |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the bridegroom and the bride out bride's pavilion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | the bridegroom and the bride out bride's pavilion *not said here* |  |  | LORD's chamber |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial\_Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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אִסְפוּ־עָ֞ם קַדְּשׁ֤וּ קָהָל֙ קִבְצ֣וּ זְקֵנִ֔ים אִסְפוּ֙ עֽוֹלָלִ֔ים וְיֹנְקֵ֖י שָׁדָ֑יִם יֵצֵ֤א חָתָן֙ מֵֽחֶדְר֔וֹ וְכַלָּ֖ה מֵחֻפָּתָֽהּ׃

[Joel 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.16/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOL:36` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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